Laila Helena Naraghi (born 29 June 1982 in

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) is a Swedish politician of Persian origin from the

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and a member of the Swedish Parliament.

Biography

Naraghi was raised in

Oskarshamn Oskarshamn is a coastal city and the seat of Oskarshamn Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 17,258 inhabitants in 2010. History Etymology Döderhultsvik was the original name before a town charter was granted in 1856. The name was then chang ...

, Sweden. She joined the

Swedish Social Democratic Youth League The Swedish Social Democratic Youth League ( sv, Sveriges Socialdemokratiska Ungdomsförbund ; SSU) is a branch of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in Sweden. The president has been Lisa Nåbo, since ...

(SSU) at the age of 14. At the SSU congress in 2007, she sought the chairmanship of the SSU, but lost to

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with a vote of 131 to 115. She studied in

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getting her bachelor's degree in political science with a focus on crisis management and international cooperation. In 2012 she has been in the Swedish UN Association Board. She worked at the

Olof Palme International Center The Olof Palme International Center is a Swedish non-governmental organization and the Swedish labour movement's cooperative body for international issues. The center's areas of interest include democracy, human rights and peace. The center is nam ...

from 2009 to 2014tillsammansoskarshamn.se: Laila Naraghi - Laila Naraghi, riksdagsledamot och ledamot i Konsitutionsutskottet från Oskarshamn
and a board member of Olof Palmes Memorial Fund. In the parliamentary elections in 2014, she was the candidate of the

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for the

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(Kalmar County), but failed to be elected. She was also temporary chairman of the Board of Education in Oskarshamn between May and October 2014. Between 2014 and 2016, she served as a political expert at the Swedish Foreign Ministry under Foreign Minister

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. Since September 2016 she is a Member of

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, the Swedish Parliament.ostrasmaland.se: Naraghi om sextrakasseri och mäns härskarteknik

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